My life is a hackathon

Following up on yesterday's post, Get Ready for VMForce - Here's How!, I was thinking about putting together a series of tutorials on building a Chatter app on App Engine using Spring MVC with JDO. This will take considerable effort and I'm just wondering if it would be valuable to…

Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog. At Appirio we've been excited about Salesforce Chatter for quite a while. We firmly believe that Chatter has the potential to bridge the gap between enterprise applications and the way people work. We were luckily enough to receive special prerelease access to Chatter to…

One of my fellow Appirians sent me an email today pointing me to the AppWrench site. AppWrench is a profiling tool for App Engine that runs both locally (for free!) and for applications deployed on App Engine. In addition to profiling, you can also display Data Store and Memcache API…

App Engine has a number of security restrictions that it imposes on applications. One that is often cited as a major source of frustration is the inability to read/write to a local file system. It looks like the developer community may have developed a workaround. Kyle Roche sent me…

My buddy Kyle Roche has an awesome post today on how to create a Google Wave robot on App Engine that contributes to the conversation with information from Salesforce.com using the Force.com toolkit for Google App Engine. If you are not familiar with Google Wave check out this…

Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog It’s fairly common these days to see Flex applications running inside Salesforce.com. But what if you'd like to run your Flex applications on another SaaS provider like Google App Engine or Amazon EC2. We are going to set up a simple Flex…

A couple of the guys and myself at Appirio are writing a beginning Google App Engine with Java book to be released this fall. We've locked down the functionality of the app we are going to be discussing in the book but I would like to put the app out…